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Give My Head Peace cast: Where are they now It has been a familiar presence on our TV screens for more than 25 years Updated Give My Head Peace Never miss a thing from Belfast and beyond - sign up for FREE newsletter direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice It's hard to believe it, but Give My Head Peace has been ...

J UST AS THE pen is mightier than the sword, so arrogant stupidity can do a cause more damage than its opponent’s guns and bombs. Northern Ireland’s 100th anniversary falls next month, and the survival for a century of the six-county state which few expected to last should have been a moment of triumph for unionists. But the province’s streets have been lit by riots, and reunification of the island of Ireland seems likelier than it has for decades. Remarkably, it is a unionist leader who has done more to advance that nationalist ideal than decades of republican terrorism.

A hundred years of trouble: How an outburst of violence exposed Northern Ireland as a failed state On the 100th anniversary of the divided state they created, the Ulster unionists, far from celebrating, are in thrall to a sense of doom. Will the constitutional experiment soon be over?  The scenes of the recent violence in Belfast were like a rerun of images from the darkest days of the Troubles. A sense of inflammatory discord hung in the air as the police came under sustained attack, youths hurled petrol bombs and a double-decker bus was set alight. The escalating mood of conflict, given ...

Updated / Monday, 12 Apr 2021 12:00 We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Cuan Ó Seireadáin, Curator at Conradh na Gaeilge, previews the new TG4 documentary Uimhir 6... At first glance, 6 Harcourt Street looks just like every other Georgian House in Dublin, but its dramatic story is revealed by a new TG4 documentary, which premieres on April 14th at 9.30 pm. Few realise that the story o...

David McCullagh reviews The Partition by Charles Townshend Updated / Sunday, 11 Apr 2021 21:55 Irish people demonstrate in London in 1921 about the partition of Ireland under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. (Pic: AFP via Getty Images) Six One News co-anchor David McCullagh reviews Charles Townshend's new history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence, published for the centenary of the Partition. "The fundamental attitudes which produced partition are still in play a century later." The last line of Charles Townshend's new book highlights the importance of understanding how and...